Hannah's Musings on Stuff and Such

The Impeachment Managers

Speaker Pelosi has chosen seven experienced persons. Will the Dude grandstand and verbally attack each in turn? If he does, he should be ignored.

* Crow is an Armed Services Committee member, an experienced lawyer, and a decorated Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. (He’s one of two freshmen on the seven-member team, having only been in Congress for 12 months.)

* Demings serves on both the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, and is a former chief of police in Orlando.

* Garcia is a House Judiciary Committee member and a former judge in Houston. (Like Crow, Garcia has only been in Congress for one year.)

* Jeffries is a Judiciary Committee member, an experienced lawyer, and a former clerk for a judge.

* Lofgren has the unique experience of having been a Judiciary Committee staffer when the panel was preparing to impeach Richard Nixon, a Judiciary Committee member during Bill Clinton’s impeachment, and will serve as an impeachment manager against Trump.

* Nadler is a lawyer and a longtime member of the House Judiciary Committee, which he currently chairs.

* Schiff is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, but he’s also a former federal prosecutor. Just as notable, he’s served as a Senate impeachment manager before – along with Lofgren – in the 2010 case against Judge Thomas Porteous.

Incidentally, before today, every presidential impeachment manager in American history was a white man. Of the seven members of the current team, most are not white men.